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On May 18th, 2004, at age 40, Randy Johnson pitched the 17th perfect game in MLB history, becoming the oldest pitcher to toss a perfect game. As a tribute to Johnson, PowerChalk founder and CEO Chaz Henry writes about his experience with The Big Unit. A Tribute to Randy Johnson In my collection of signed [...]

We were in Fort Lauderdale this past week covering the 2012 AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. 2008 Olympic gold medalist Chris Colwill led team USA, edging out China’s Li Shixin to claim victory in the 3M event. Here’s a slow motion clip of his 5154B dive in the preliminary round: We’ve added clips of Chris [...]

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan Magnusson, the newest employee here at PowerChalk. As a noobie, I will be experimenting with and learning the ins and outs of the website. Along the way, I will publish my experiences in a daily blog series titled “Learning PowerChalk.” Day 5 Last time, I discovered the advantages of using Keyframes [...]

PowerChalk founder and CEO writes about his coaching experiences. From day one of coaching I’ve tried to incorporate my parents into the practice sessions, drills and goals of the team. All of my baseball practices have stations with a parent (or two) manning it as the kids rotate through. Stations have specific objectives towards using [...]

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan Magnusson, the newest employee here at PowerChalk. As a noobie, I will be experimenting with and learning the ins and outs of the website. Along the way, I will publish my experiences in a daily blog series titled “Learning PowerChalk.” Day 4 Last time, I sat down with fellow PowerChalk employee [...]

I think a lot of us (self included) lose track of the fact that baseball is a 60-40 game. Even a superior team would lose 40+ games to a lesser team if they played one hundred times. Pick any year and you’ll see that the MLB division winners are .586. You can get beat 11-2 [...]

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan Magnusson, the newest employee here at PowerChalk. As a noobie, I will be experimenting with and learning the ins and outs of the website. Along the way, I will publish my experiences in a daily blog series titled “Learning PowerChalk.” Day 3 Last time, I uploaded video of my golf swing [...]

Interesting quote in this article by PGA instructor John Hughes, “If you are paying for instruction that does not include video review of your game, you should reconsider why you are paying for golf instruction.” I agree, it’s just not possible to see the important nuances of the swing without the aid of slow motion. [...]

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan Magnusson, the newest employee here at PowerChalk. As a noobie, I will be experimenting with and learning the ins and outs of the website. Along the way, I will publish my experiences in a daily blog series titled “Learning PowerChalk.” Day 2 Last time, I tinkered around with the telestrator and [...]

Hi everyone! I’m Ryan Magnusson, the newest employee here at PowerChalk. As a noobie, I will be experimenting with and learning the ins and outs of the website. Along the way, I will publish my experiences in a daily blog series titled “Learning PowerChalk.” Day 1 Upon arriving at the site for the first time, [...]